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...Louisiana, the shrinkage is most dramatic. The state has lost 1 million acres of coast--11/2 times the area of Rhode Island--since 1930, nearly half of that vanished land lying between New Orleans and the Gulf. The city proper is estimated to be sinking 3 ft. per century. And while the whole world is struggling with rising sea levels, New Orleans and its environs hurt more than most. The State of Louisiana is estimated to be losing land at the alarming rate of about two acres every hour...
...Energy Department says Katrina didn't damage production as badly as Ivan did a year ago, one energy executive, trading private e-mail, fretted that "the oil industry might be impacted for a year by Katrina." Several days after the storm, the price of gasoline moved above $3 per gal. in cities from New York to Los Angeles, and the government reported receiving more than 5,000 calls to its price-gouging hotline...
...Price of Democracy? You say that Bangladesh has been growing at 5% per year, and that that's wonderful [April 10]. Really? Any undergraduate student of economics can tell you that increased income is no measure of well-being. The acceptance of criminal behavior?murder, rape and arson?that has come with the acceptance of a confrontational two-party system means that well-being is lower today than it was under autocracy. That's not surprising: democratization and violence tend to go together. Indeed, the connection between democracy and violence is an ancient one: Thucydides and Plato were the first...
...classmates who “approach the academic material in a different way from someone who is just out of high school.” However, Shortill, whose performance in the ALB program qualified her for a special student program that allows her to enroll in two FAS classes per semester during the day for the regular per-class Harvard tuition, notices a difference between the dynamics of her classes at the College and extension school.“There is a difference between deep and broad. The extension school has a very wide range of students...it?...
...leukemia and bone cancer), and cesium-137 (which causes muscle cancer). Then, of course, there is plutonium-239, which is so toxic that just one-millionth of a gram is carcinogenic. The United States has over 100 nuclear reactors, each of which produce about 200 kilograms of plutonium-239 per year. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki used 6.2 kilograms of plutonium...